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John McAfee is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur born in 1945. He was one of the first people to design anti-virus software and to develop a virus scanner, creating McAfee Associates. He now has no relationship with the company, which was sold to Intel Corp. In 2010 he moved to Belize to start a biotech company, but left the country when accused of murdering his neighbor. He currently resides in the U.S.

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5 Jun, 2014

Radio Ink keynote

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McAfee delivers the keynote speech at Radio Ink’s Convergence conference. He says that Google is trying matchmaking services:

I don’t want the perfect  mate. I don’t want Google to search 5 billion women to find the perfect one. I would shoot myself in six months.

He says privacy is difficult due to the access to personal data that companies like Google and organizations like the NSA have:

Privacy is a choice. If everybody here knew everything about everybody else, there would be fistfights in the hall. The only way we can live together as a society is if we deceive each other. Tragic, but true […] If you have something to hide in this world, you’re screwed